If you have taken a walk recently near the latest Tarmac site at Maxey, you will have noticed a huge new planting of trees and shrubs surrounding the area.
David Poll and Mike Stevenson at work planting over 6000 shrubs and trees
It’s unlikely that you’ll have stopped to count them, so it may come as a pleasant surprise to learn that six thousand, three hundred native hedge plants, shrubs and trees have been planted this winter alone.
These have gone into three separate hedgerows, each 1.5km long and include hawthorn, hazel, blackthorn, field maple, spindle, guelder rose, wild privet, dogwood, crab apple, oak and ash.
Six hundred full size trees - some of them 4m tall have gone in - mainly ash, oak, alder, hazel and native black poplar.
Principal, Jim Unwin is justly proud of his company’s contribution to the enhancement of the area. He told the Tribune:” Over the past ten years we have planted twenty thousand native trees and shrubs to make hedges and create wet woodlands and ordinary woodlands.”
The density of the planting with such a wide variety of species will be a rich habitat for all kinds of wildlife. As summer approaches, we can look forward to seeing these plants come into leaf and imagine how they will grow more and more beautiful as years go by.
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